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It's like Frutiger Aero come to life

if you click through to the linked Vannevar Bush article and scroll down there are a bunch of vintage ads around the prose that are kind of interesting. And some of the predictions…

The brief appearance in Animal House is a little gem.

The 18th place entry (A cryptocrystalline micrometeorite resting on a #80 testing sieve) is like a still from the original Andromeda Strain movie

It is better stated that: since there are "so many more" irrational numbers than rational ones, if you were to pick a real number "at random," the probability that it would be rati…

Have a look at Emmy: https://emmy.mentat.org

When I was in high school my desk had a graffiti carved in it of the three most important numbers: 69, 2112, and 714. 2112 was the Rush album (which I liked), and I had to ask a fr…

My own thought (I know there is a great deal of room for disagreement) is that the J6 crowd saw no consequences for the attempts to obstruct the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation and th…

> Although widely held, the belief that merit rather than luck determines success or failure in the world is demonstrably false. This is not least because merit itself is, in large…

I have done the translation from Scheme to Clojure which raises the possibility that some of the typing could be done gradually with spec; I haven't worked with typed scheme. There…

I have been interested in doing this for a long time, and have thought about doing it in Haskell. It would be a lot of work, and some of the type decisions that would be needed wou…

Thank you, I will do this.

(OT) I like iTerm for its smart select/copy behavior, mostly, but stopped using it about 3 months ago because I often caught it using immense amounts of RAM, slowing everything dow…

I lived in France for a few years and wanted to become fluent in the language. One part of my strategy was just to try to brute-force through some novels with the aid of a dictiona…

And in just such a way as to prevent your insurance company from paying a claim!

So you get one free murder? No, the deterrent had to be there beforehand, so that our hypothetical killer who is certain she only wants to kill one person will be exposed to that d…

I'm so glad it was helpful. We have some Jupyter notebooks, e.g. https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils/blob/master/j... One on the Foucault pendulum sounds like it would m…

I maintain a port to Clojure https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils I haven't done much with it recently but have plans in the back of my mind for when I have more free tim…

/me feels the unsettling presence of a doppelgänger

There is good news and bad news. The ODE integrators (etc.) in Apache Commons Math are great and work with unboxed types. In SICM, however, you'll be dealing with clojure functions…

You are correct.

zoinks! I did the port but somehow missed my HN moment. Someday I was thinking this might be worth a show HN, if I get some more web pages up exploring what can be done with the sy…

It's what I learned with. I thought it was pretty good, but I haven't tried any others. It gets you started, and seems best for a reader who knows a few other languages.

It's a treat. It's like a well-produced color mathematical atlas come to life.

The Scheme code that inspired this can work symbolically as well as numerically, since it contains a computer algebra system at its core.